Nishikawa Architects Inc

The Stanley Izumigawa Resource Center is the newest building on the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center campus in Kahului. Working with Nishikawa Architects (NA) was a wonderful experience. Dedicated, accessible and innovative are three words that describe the team at NA. They were gracious with their time and made the entire process very enjoyable. They went above and beyond to ensure that everyone on our end was satisfied with the final product.

Nishikawa Architects won the bid for our building which is a 65,000 sf building 3 stories. They solicited the bids and came in under budget. We are about to get into the building phase as everyone has submitted their plans. It has been a great experiance working with Nishikawa Architects. They are easy to communicate with and excellent at what they do. We had hired this firm for a smaller project 7 years ago but this current project is very big for us and could have been very stressful. We are kept completely informed with the progress of the project. The 3D fly throughs were impressive. We look forward to a completed building for South Maui Learning Ohana which will house the Kihei Charter School in July of 2017.

Our experience building our home in Maui 11 years ago was excellent. We had complete trust in Nishikawa Architects and ended up with a beautiful home with very little hassle. The Architects and staff were very efficient, professional, talented and listened to our needs. We would highly recommend this company to everyone.

Clayton and Durwin provided architectural services for our new home in Wailea Golf Vistas.They were able to give advise on layouts that enhanced the overall look and function of the home. We have been living in the home for six months and everything has felt very comfortable and works well with our life style. I had ask for a well built home and the builder and his subs committed on how well it had been designed and it would be one of the strongest and best built homes on the island.

It gives me great pleasure to write this letter of recommendation for Clayton Nishikawa, his company and his staff. In 2006, my husband and I purchased a 6 acre property above Wailuku Heights on Maui. Coincidently, our realtor, Paul MacLaughlin from Sotheby’s International, was in the process of building his home. We asked Paul for his recommendation of an architectual firm. Without hesitation, Paul recommended Nishikawa Architects. From the first meeting we knew that we had found the right firm to design our final home on Maui. They listened to our requirements and quickly understood our design choices. The relationship grew from there..... through the permitting process and the two years of site preparation....(a very difficult site). They ushered us through meetings with neighbors that could have been unpleasant but they handled it with great style. The actual construction went without issues. They worked effectively with our contractor and interior designer. We worked as a team throughout the 2 years of construction. Whenever we requested changes our request was met with “no problem, we'll take care of that”. The final product is a beautiful 10,000 square foot home which is masterfully located on the 6-acre site to maximize the view from the 1,200 foot elevation. Like Paul, our realtor, I would not hesitate to recommend Nishikawa Architects to any of my friends. I also highly recommend them to any absentee owner, building on Maui, as we were. Their level of communication was outstanding. I am proud to welcome guests into my home thanks to Nishikawa Architects, Clayton Nishikawa and his wonderful staff. - Leona Rocha Wilson

My wife and I have known Clayton Nishikawa for 17 years. We first met Clayton in 1997 when interviewing architects to design our first home in Kaanapali Maui Hawaii. His enthusiasm and easy going attitude made us feel extremely comfortable, but we needed more than comfort. We needed an amazing talent who listened to our needs and translated them into our dream home. We looked at some of his previous work and became convinced of his talents as well. We spent a year designing the home to make sure everything was exactly as we wanted it. We didn't want a bunch of change orders. The completed home was exactly as we imagined it only better with only one minor change from the plans. We thought that was amazing. Clayton took our floor plan and added the touches we hadn't even imagined could be incorporated into the home. The result was spectacular. The home was so beautiful that we had several unsolicited offers to buy the home and two years later we sold it. It didn't take much for us to look to Clayton to design our new home in Kapalua Maui Hawaii. Once again, Clayton performed his magic. From design to construction oversight and even representing us to the County of Maui for a variance because of a special design feature, Clayton came through for us. Both of our homes were done long distance, meaning that we were not on Maui during construction. We relied on Clayton to represent our interests with the contractors and subs. He did an amazing job. Clayton can be trusted to complete whatever it is you want him to do. If we ever build another home, we want Clayton on our team.